of tackling their unemployment problem. …

that reductions in hours will be an efficient policy for reducing unemployment. …

unemployment forecast was estimated. For unemployed without such a forecast, the effect is much smaller. The paper also shows that …

In this paper we examine the influence of unemployment on property crimes and on violent crimes in France for the … Becker-type model in which unemployment is a measure of how potential criminals fare in the legitimate job market. First, our … estimates show that in the cross-section dimension, crime and unemployment are positively associated. Second, we find that …

This paper provides a comprehensive evaluation of benefit sanctions, i.e. temporary reductions in unemployment benefits … as punishment for noncompliance with eligibility requirements. In addition to the effects on unemployment durations, we … evaluate the effects on post-unemployment employment stability, on exits from the labor market and on earnings. In our analysis …

This paper studies the role of culture in shaping unemployment outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on local … political jurisdictions. Local contrasts across the language border identify the role of culture for unemployment. Our findings … indicate that differences in culture explain differences in unemployment duration on the order of 20 %. Moreover, we find that …

In this paper we examine the influence of unemployment on property crimes and on violent crimes in France for the … social conditions prevailing in the département in that year, we construct measures of the unemployment rate as well as other … model in which unemployment is a measure of how potential criminals fare in the legitimate job market. First, our estimates …